Water-motor



(No Model.)

S. SMYTH. WATER MOTOR.

Patented June 3, 1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT firmer,

SAMUEL SMYTH, OF PITTSTON, PENNSYLVANIA.

WATER- MOTOR.

SPECIFICATION forming 'part of Letters Patent No. 429,392, dated June 3, 1890.

Application filed March 12, 1890.

T0 aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SAMUEL SMYTH, a citizen of the United States, residing in Pittston, in the county of Luzerne and State of Pennsylvania, have invented an Improvement in Water-Motors, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is especially adapted to obtaining power for running a pump or other machinery by the gradual accumulation of water in a vessel, so that a small stream of water can be made use of to run light machinery in a positive and reliable manner.

In my improvement the stream of water is allowed to run into a receiving-vessel that is held in postion by a latch, and as the water accumulates it acts upon a float having a lever, which, after the proper quantity of water has accumulated, disconnects the latch and allows the vessel containing water to descend and exert the force due to the downward movement of the mass of water, and this force is communicated to a shaft and fiy-wheel, or any other suitable mechanism, to drive a pump or other device.

In someinstances my improvements are applied with a rotary device containing three or more receiving-vessels; or this improvement may be used with two receiving-vessels fitted to reciprocate.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation, partially in section, of my improvement as applied with a reciprocating deviceg'and Fig;

2 is a vertical section illustrating the improvement as applied to a rotary device.

The receiving-vessels A B are of any suitable size or shape, and the water is supplied to these vessels from a pipe 0, and there is a latch D acting against a fixed stop E for holding the vessel in a stationary position while the water is running into the same, and F is a float within the vessel, connected by any suitable arrangement of levers and links G with the latch D, so that as the water runs into the receiving-vessel and rises therein it Serial No. 343,607. (No model.)

or perform any other mechanical duty, as may be desired.

In Fig. 1 the vessels A and B are at opposite sides of the axis or shaft H, and there is a central partition 2 ,between the respective receiving-vessels, and the pipe 0 is centrally ofi the axis H, so that the water will run into the elevated receiving-vessel, and when this is unlatched and descends the partition 2 crosses the path of the descending water and causes the same to pass into the previouslyempty vessel until the same is filled, so that first one vessel descends and then the other, and in the descent of the vessel A the vessel B is raised, and vice versa. It will be apparent that the vessels A and B may be entirely separated from each other and suspended from a walking-beam or other support, the latches and floats being provided with each vessel similar to those before described. In this case the water is to be directed from one vessel to the other in any suitable manner.

In Fig. 2 I have represented four receivingvessels A A B B, arranged around the axis or shaft H, and each receiving-vessel is provided with a latch and float, so that the receivingvessels as they come around progressively are held by the latches until the accumulation of water in the receiving-vessel that is being filled causes the float to rise and the latch to be separated from the fixed stop E, and as the receiving-vessel that is full of water descends another empty vessel is brought into place, and the weight of water as it descends acts to rotate the axis or shaft 11 and communicate motion to the flywheel or other device to which the pump or other article to be acted upon is connected. I have represented a fly-wheel L upon the axis H, there being a ratchet-wheel K upon the axis and one or more pawls upon the receiving-vessels, so that the weight of water as it descends and rotates the receiving-vessels may act through the pawl upon the ratchetwheel and fly-wheel to rotate the same, and the motion of the fly-wheel and shaft may continue during the time that the rotation of the receiving-vessels is stopped for the water to accumulate in one of such receiving-vessels.

I do not claim, broadly, a rotary or a reciprocating receiving-vessel into which the water axis H, of two or more receiving-vessels supported by such axis,a pipe for snpplyingwai201, a latch provided for each of the receivlngvessels, a float, and lever-connections to the latch for releasing the vessel when filled and allowing it to descend, substantially as set forth.

Signed by me this 26th day of I ebrnary, 1800.

SAMUEL SlilYlIl. Witnesses:

\V. SMYTII, II. C. SMYTIIE. 

